Quotes About Appreciation

If you realize that you don't have that many more years to live and if you live your life as if you actually had only a day left, then the sense of impermanence heightens that feeling of preciousness and gratitude.

Everything is equally precious and whole and good, and everyone is equally precious and whole and good.

I learned today that life is very precious. Even when we're determined to block the magic, it will get through and wake us up.

Theism is a deep-seated conviction that there's some hand to hold: if we just do the right things, someone will appreciate us and take care of us. It means thinking there's always going to be a babysitter available when we need one. We all are inclined to abdicate our responsibilities and delegate our authority to something outside ourselves. Nontheism is relaxing with the ambiguity and uncertainty of the present moment without reaching for anything to protect ourselves.

The more we connect with a bigger perspective, the more we connect with energetic joy. Exertion is touching in to our appetite for enlightenment. It allows us to act, to give, to work appreciatively with whatever comes our way.

People say you don't need a father to be successful. I take offense to that. I had an argument with my mom about Father's Day and why it's not celebrated like Mother's Day.

The human being receives the pleasure from music, not from the argument over what it is.

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

Wrestling is an art form. I don't worry about those who don't get it; I worry about satisfying those who do.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

Art does not die because there is no more art. It dies because there is too much.

Buying art is not understanding art.

We have eyes, and we're looking at stuff all the time, all day long. And I just think that whatever our eyes touch should be beautiful, tasteful, appealing, and important.

Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note.

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.

What I have in mind is that art may be bad, good or indifferent, but, whatever adjective is used, we must call it art, and bad art is still art in the same way that a bad emotion is still an emotion.

Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it.

I have learned that what I have not drawn I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us will put out more and better ideas if our efforts are appreciated.

A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.

The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook.

Art is to look at not to criticize.

My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.

Above all, it is a matter of loving art, not understanding it.